Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto (Játiva, Valencia 1591-1652 Naples)
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Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto (Játiva, Valencia 1591-1652 Naples)

The Head of Saint John the Baptist

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Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto (Játiva, Valencia 1591-1652 Naples)
The Head of Saint John the Baptist
signed 'Jusepe de Ribera espagnol' (lower centre)
oil on canvas, unframed
24½ x 28 5/8 in. (62.2 x 72.7 cm.)
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拍品專文

We are grateful to Professor Nicola Spinosa for confirming the attribution on the basis of a photograph. He will publish the picture in the forthcoming second edition of his monograph on Ribera's oeuvre.

Ribera also treated this subject in a picture now in the Museo Civico 'Gaetano Filangeri' (N. Spinosa, Ribera, Naples, 2003, p. 335, no. A278 and illustrated on p. 203), of which replicas and variants exist. Although of broadly similar composition, in that picture, which is dated 1646, the artist has included a bloodied cloth and knife. The present work is quite different in execution: the relative freedom of its handling, the way in which artist has tilted the head slightly upwards and depicted the Baptist's mouth just open suggesting a more recent death, combine to lend the image an even greater and more shocking immediacy than its counterpart.